[Fwd: Re: book: wittgenstein's poker]
Luke Weiger
lweiger at umich.edu
Tue Oct 30 14:25:50 PST 2001
> ("That whereof we cannot speak, we
> must remain silent"; it's beautiful in German: Wovon man nicht schrechen
> kann, darueber muss man schweigen.")
In one of the odder coincidences I've encountered in a while, my former
German instructor quoted this in class an hour after I'd read it in my
mailbox. He happened to be subbing for my current GSI. Odd: I never
thought an analytic philosopher would be known for the beauty of his prose.
-- Luke
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